Siege of Kut-Al-Amara Indian Distinguished Conduct Medal, GVR, Kaisar-I-Hind bust awarded to Sepoy Kartar Singh, 24th Punjabis who was decorated for his actions at Kut-Al-Amara where he would be taken Prisoner of War.
Indian Distinguished Service Medal, GVR, Kaisar-I-Hind bust; (939 SEPOY KARTAR SINGH, 24/PJBS.)
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Kartar Singh saw service as a Sepoy (No. 939) with the 24th Punjabis and was awarded his Indian Distinguished Service Medal for actions at Kut-Al-Amara where he was taken Prisoner of War.
The siege of Kut Al Amara (7 December 1915 – 29 April 1916), also known as the first battle of Kut, was the besieging of an 8,000 strong British Army garrison in the town of Kut, 160 km (100 mi) south of Baghdad, by the Ottoman Army. In 1915, its population was around 6,500. Following the surrender of the garrison on 29 April 1916, the survivors of the siege were marched to imprisonment at Aleppo, during which many died. Historian Christopher Catherwood has called the siege "the worst defeat of the Allies in World War I". Ten months later, the British Indian Army, consisting almost entirely of newly recruited troops from Western India, conquered Kut, Baghdad and other regions in between in the Fall of Baghdad.
